Letter: Rules of engagement

Following last year’s Notice of Renewal from the General Optical Council (GOC), in which registrants were instructed that it was mandatory to engage with a Survey, I wrote to the GOC in order to establish on what legal grounds they were insisting that registrants ‘must provide this extra information to complete your renewal’.

In further correspondence, and in the face of the GOC’s clouded rationale resulting from its total preoccupation with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Survey, it was necessary to point-out that:

There were, under consideration, two, very distinct, independent, legal responsibilities, that should not be confused one with the other, ie: